We are collaborating with IFLA on the project ‘Everywhere, All the Time’, an interactive intervention aimed at young people to address issues related to technology, society and its impact on the planet. The aim is to demystify new technologies, encourage a critical approach to digital literacy, discuss the benefits and drawbacks of their use, and reflect on their influence on our lives and the environment. We participate in this project together with IE University, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Universidad Internacional de Valencia and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, to provide a deeper and more critical understanding of the digital world around us.

The Servei de Biblioteques i Documentació of the Universitat de València participates from 2014 in SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), an international open access project led by CERN. The responsible person is Alejandro Gadea. The consortium is made up of more than 3,000 libraries, funding agencies and research centres from 44 countries, regions or territories, as well as 3 intergovernmental organisations.

Its mission is to facilitate open access publication in selected relevant journals in the field of high-energy physics at no cost to authors, thanks to the contribution of participating institutions that pass on their investment in journal subscriptions to the consortium. The SBD also participates in the SCOAP3 book initiative, established in 2019, which aims to make key monographs in the field open access..

The Universitat de València has an interlibrary loan document supply agreement with OCLC (Online Computer Library Center). The responsible person is Rosario García. It is currently the main client for this type of loan.

One OCLC initiative is WorldCat, which brings together under a single consultation interface all the bibliographic holdings available in OCLC that are located in a library and, in addition, the Open Access content present in WorldCat. It contains collections from more than 15,000 libraries in 107 countries. It is the world's largest bibliographic database.

The Trobes catalogue is one of those included in WorldCat. OCLC member libraries' local catalogues are regularly synchronized with the database.

The SBD participates in the following REBIUN strategic lines 3 and working groups:

Line 3 of the V Strategic Plan of the REBIUN library network 2024-2027. Equipment and professional training.

It is necessary for institutions to have agile and efficient structures that allow the adaptation and optimal management of resources, both human and material, of current library spaces and services and those that will undoubtedly arise in connection with the digital transformation.

This requirement implies the transformation, evolution and, in some cases, the creation of new professional profiles and digital competencies that must be addressed and developed. The line will work in two areas: Models of organization of work teams and development and boosting of professional talent.

Information and documentation generated by the line. The responsible person is Cristina Tomás.

Working groups:

• Bibliographic heritage working group. This group is in charge of disseminating the bibliographic heritage of the libraries belonging to REBIUN. The responsible person is María Jesús Garcia Mateu.
  • Information and documentation generated by the group
• Intellectual property working group. This group works with the aim of facilitating and disseminating information on intellectual property rights of interest to university libraries. The responsible person is María José Cháfer Asensio.
  • Information and documentation generated by the group

The Conferencia de Archivos de las Universidades Españolas (CAU) is made up of archive technicians from Spanish universities, both public and private, with the aim of collaborating on common tasks, objectives and actions that lead to improving the management of the documentary heritage of Spanish higher education centres. The SBD, with responsible persons Irene Manclús and Julio Miquel, participates in the following groups::

• Grup de treball d'identificació, valoració i classificació de sèries documentals.
• Working group to produce a guide to university archives.
• Working group on historical archives.

The University of Valencia has been participating in the Dialnet project since 2005. Currently, our libraries carry out the indexing of journals, and the indexing of chapters of collective works and congresses published by the University. The indexing of chapters of collective works is also carried out, according to the agreed indexing criteria. The responsibles persons are Alejandro Gadea and Beatriz Climent.

DIALNET is integrated with the interlibrary loan service and the service for the supply of articles from printed journals, which has led to an increase in the number of requests for documents referenced in DIALNET requested from these two services. In addition, some of the data entered are used as input in the RODERIC repository.

The main objective of the participation of the UV in DIALNET is to give visibility to its own production, not only by publishing journals and collective works, but also by reviewing and completing the information of the authors included in DIALNET who belong to our university community. For this reason, in recent years, we have been working to improve the information about the UV, which is available through UV institutional page in DIALNET. In it, each author of the UV has his or her own personal page where their publications are displayed.

The current status of the project is reflected in the Dialnet report. Any error in this information should be communicated to: revistas@uv.es

SBD participates since 2020 in the BIP Working Group: Libraries and Intellectual Property. The responsible person is Cristina Tomás.

Created in 1996, the main objective of the FESABID BPI Working Group is to contribute to the defense of the right to intellectual property adapted to the role of libraries. It studies and prepares technical reports that it submits to the Board of FESABID, and acts according to the information demand of the Federation. 

Since 2020 the SBD has been a member of EXPANIA, the Spanish group of users who use computer applications from the Ex Libris company to manage libraries and electronic information resources. The responsible person is José Manuel Barrueco.

The Collective Catalogue of Periodicals of the Spanish Health Sciences Libraries, known as C-17, contains information on the collections of the health sciences libraries of the 17 Spanish Autonomous Regions. It is one of the main working tools of the libraries and documentation units of Health Sciences. The responsible person is Blanca Salom.

The Libraries and Documentation Service of the University of Valencia has been a member of the UNIRIS purchasing group since 2000. The group has the main objective of acquiring, in the best possible conditions, scientific information resources. In this sense, it also promotes the sharing, in a discreet and always respectful way of the contractual agreements of each institution, the most relevant information (uses and costs) that allows having a global vision that makes it possible to present, to the different editors and / or aggregators and producers of content and services, advantageous negotiation terms for all participating institutions. The responsible person is Alejandro Gadea.

The SBD participates in the Red de Centros de Información y Documetnación Ambiental (RECIDA), made up of more than 150 documentation centres and libraries specialising in the environment and protected natural spaces, coordinated by the CENEAM. Within the SBD, the Botanical Garden Library, the United Nations Depository Library and the Science Library collaborate. Its participation in RECIDA includes attendance and contribution to the network's annual seminars (held at the University of Valencia in 2019), the development of resource guides such as those on biodiversity (2022) and children's literature on nature (2021 and 2024), and collaboration in the RECIDA sustainability plan. This network allows the SBD to access environmental resources from other centres, foster cooperation with external working groups and apply best communication practices, focused on providing quality environmental information and raising awareness of environmental conservation. The responsible person is Ana Mira.

The SBD participates in Bibliosalud, a cooperative project working to improve information and reference services in health sciences. This project is made up of information and documentation professionals from different fields, such as hospital libraries, laboratories, research centres and university libraries, with the aim of consolidating cooperation in key areas of action. The working groups organise themselves independently and share their progress in general meetings. 

The SBD collaborates specifically in the Training Group 2, which focuses on improving the training of health sciences information professionals. The purpose of this group is to boost the competencies of professionals in order to optimise the services offered in the health field. The responsible person is Blanca Salom.

The working group formed by the university libraries of the University of Alcalá, the University of Barcelona, the University of Granada, the University of Seville, the University of Valencia, and the University of Zaragoza aims to develop alliances that enhance innovation, excellence, and sustainability in their libraries through the implementation of the EFQM model. These libraries collaborate on projects that include sharing best practices, analyzing the impact on their stakeholders, and exchanging information and experiences to achieve better management. Through benchmarking, they consider it essential to identify best practices, foster shared knowledge, and improve organizational performance, ensuring management based on continuous improvement and excellence. The responsibles persons are Cristina Tomás and Concha González.

BUVAL is a consortium that brings together the five public university libraries of the Valencian Community with the aim of coordinating their activities, combining resources and sharing experiences, in order to improve efficiency in management processes, as well as offering more services. The responsible person is Cristina Tomás, who currently also serves as the Technical Director of the BUVAL Consortium.

BEGV, Biblioteques Especialitzades de la Generalitat Valenciana, is the network formed by specialized libraries and documentation centers dependent on the Generalitat Valencian. The SBD begins a collaboration in 2022 to share experiences and optimize services. The responsible person is Cristina Tomás.

Since 2013 the SBD (Libraries and Documentation Service) of the UV collaborates in the elaboration of authority recordings in Cantic, the Authorities Catalogue of Names and Titles of Catalonia, which is coordinated by the Library of Catalonia and in which universities and other institutions of a cultural nature which use Catalan as the official Language for the elaboration of the content of its catalogues take part.
The SBD elaborates authorities in accordance with the international regulations (AACR2, RDA, and MARC21) and the specific guidelines of the Cantic. The fact of collaborating in this project is considered strategic for the SBD since standardization is an indirect way of contributing our authors’ standardized names in other International files of authors like VIAF or the CERL Thesaurus. The responsible person is José Manuel Barrueco.

Collaboration with the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Sciences de l’Information et des Bibliotheques (ENSSIB), where State Library Curators are trained. For three consecutive years, the SBD of the UV has received three curators for their practical training period

The University of Valencia collaborated between 2010 and 2012 in the Europeana Regia, financed with the collaboration of the European Commission. This project, in which other important European libraries participated (BnF, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Royal Library of Belgium, Herzog August Bibliothek), aimed to digitise and provide access to more than 1,500 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts belonging to important royal collections.
The SBD contributed 92 Renaissance manuscripts from the collection of the Aragonese kings of Naples.